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Administrators who love to advertise that they have schools with National Blue Ribbon status, but have since sabotaged the art programs that got them the award.  (-Anonymous)

When students crumble up their paper and expect that I'll just give them another one- especially if they were working in pencil and could have just erased or turned their paper over. Worse is when they shove it inside the desks I have nearby for storage and they sneak a new sheet- then I find their old one at the end of the day. I hate finding candy wrappers, too!! I have no idea how long they've been there so I don't know who to blame! Sneaky little suckers!
(-Submitted by elementary art teacher)

My biggest media peeve is misuse of paint brushes - it makes me cringe and shudder, how, even after you've taught them how, students still tend to scrub with the brush. It's like fingernails on the chalkboard for me. My retort is usually - "it's not a toilet brush, therefore, don't scrub with it."

My administrator/powers-that-be peeve has to do with scheduling and funding. Scheduling used to be - put 6-7 classes back to back with mixed grade levels. For some reason it seemed as paper cutting, getting supplies ready or changed out miraculously happened  (art gnomes?!). I am thankful that I've helped shine a light on that subject (though the gnome thing could be really cool)
As for funding, having less than a dollar per student is truly stretching one's resources while perfecting the beg, borrow, and acquire technique to an art form...  (Submitted by Linda Miller)

My fellow teacher peeve is the fact that they think banners, posters, murals can be whipped out momentarily - especially since you have a break/planning period. My fellow art teacher peeve - to sit back and do 'crafts' or insipid make & takes, and complain about how the budget is getting smaller, and how parents/teachers/admin. don't respect what art teachers do... A little more effort, more exhibits, and some promotion of what you do - it all makes a world of difference.   (Submitted by Linda Miller)

My pet peeves are students who try to sleep in my high school art class.  I tell them that this is unacceptable because it's not a math or science class - it's ART!
 
I tell my students that they can have drinks, snacks, etc. on the lecture (not studio) side of the art room.  The agreement is that if I find one piece of trash that this priviledge will stop.  I've never had a problem.  (Submitted by Anonymous)

Students who socialize in class, work on their projects at home that are substandard, and refuse to bring their work to class.
 
Appalachian parents who don't understand my rubrics and believe in their own minds that I graded their child's art work unfairly.  I usually have an example of a "100" for the parents to compare the results.  Sometimes this works ~ sometimes it doesn't.
 
Students who say "I don't need this class to graduate"  (Submitted by Anonymous)

Students who write an "F" in front of the word ART on the back of the rulers. I have solved this by changing F ART into WORK OF ART.:-)    (Submitted by Barbara Johnson)

Administration, coworkers and parents who don't see the need to inform us about physically, mentally, or behaviorally challenged kids or seek our input when making decisions about their education.

Anyone who thinks I just teach kids how to draw. I teach reading, writing, math, science, history, world cultures and religeons, geography, spelling, craftsmanship, visual and verbal expression, symbolism, recycling and reuse, aesthetic perception, research, personal and collective responsibility, technology, cooperation and kindness all within my art classes. And so do you. (Submitted by Dawn Kruger)

Teachers that year after year "win" regional and national art scholarships/and awards for their students by photographing subject matter and letting students duplicate the photo with grid methods or projector assistance or out and out plagarism from well-known geographical based magazines. The same teachers serve as board directors for these scholastic based art awards. How can a self-portrait be so exquisitely lit and foreshortened if the student is drawing himself? The student must use a good focal length camera with a very long bulb attachment.   (-Anonymous)   (I had a teacher like that myself- Ken)

Administrators who love to advertise that they have schools with National Blue Ribbon status, but have since sabotaged the art programs that got them the award.   (-Anonymous)

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